The Capture and Escape from the Sioux: The Ordeals of an American Pioneer Woman Captured by Indians in 1864

"A famous account of abduction and escape from hostile Indians in the old West. In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed or wounded but Sarah Larimer and Fanny Kelly, together with some of their children, were taken into captivity by the Indians. On the second night of their captivity Sarah Larimer and her son managed to escape from the Indian c